The Labour Party has signalled it may accept a Royal Charter on press
regulation, but is seeking assurances that ministers will not be able to
amend it.

The Tories will today publish a draft charter as an alternative to Lord
Justice Leveson’s recommendation for a statute to underpin a new regulator.
The charter would establish a system of verifying that a new regulator set
up by the press had the independence and powers recommended by the judge.

Labour had initially insisted on a statute to underpin the new regulator and
pledged to force the issue to a vote in the